WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
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717 | Pitch Us a No-Hitter | Send us some genuine Googlenopes. A Googlenope is a phrase or very brief sentence that, entered into the Google search engine with quotation marks around it, produces no hits. | H |
711 | Join Now! | Hyphenate the beginning and end of any two multi-syllabic words appearing anywhere in the April 29 or May 6 Style or Sunday Arts section, and then define the compound. | P |
693 | Everything Being Sequel | Give a brief scenario for the sequel to a well-known movie. | H |
650 | King Us | Give us a scenario for a horror novel based on an everyday item. | H |
556 | So Zoo Us | Combine any two kinds of animals, give its name and describe it. | H |
544 | You Gotta Have Heart | Write us some valentine sentiments from one particular person (real or fictional) to another. | H |
485 | Asterisky Business | Write a joke with a punch line depending on knowledge so esoteric that it requires an asterisked explanation. | H |
463 | Retell Sales | Give us the beginning of any well-known story as retold by any famous person, living or dead, except for Ronald Reagan. | H |
444 | Advice Squad | Take any letter from today's advice columns and answer it in the voice of someone famous, living or dead. | H |
398 | Animal Magnetism | Make great literature and/or a significant expression of the human condition out of the provided randomly-selected words. Use whatever punctuation you choose and any of the words, but only those words, and use them only once. | H |
394 | Life in the Blurbs | Come up with a blurb used to sell a real or imagined book or movie that would be likely to have the opposite of the intended effect. | H |
386 | The Game of Clue | What are some clues that someone might be any of the provided characterizations? | H |
383 | A Kinder, Gender Nation | Take an noun and give us a reason or two why it should be either masculine or feminine. | 3 |
349 | Orienting Oneself | Produce a haiku using only words found in today's Washington Post. Your entry must have three lines, the first containing exactly five syllables, the second containing exactly seven syllables, the third containing exactly five. | H |